Take Extra Precaution this Hungry Ghost Month of the 2016 Year of the Fire Monkey!

Every year, I write about the Hungry Ghost Month, because this is really one of the more important and dreaded festivals in the Chinese calendar. One of the worst Ghost Month we have seen was last 2014, last year was not so bad, but this year, we have to take precaution only because the ruling star of the year is a black star #2 Flying Star, which is also known as the Illness Star. Regular readers of this blog would already be familiar that the Illness Star is a star that causes not only illness but accidents also.

Technically speaking this year’s Hungry Ghost Month is not any stronger than usual, unlike what we had last 2014. However, base on the Flying Star Formula, the ruling star of the year is the black star #2 Flying Star, which as mentioned is the Illness Star (a star that causes both Illness and Accidents), this creates some trouble for all of us.

The effects of the Illness Star coupled with the already dreaded effects of the Hungry Ghost Month will make things worse. The Hungry Ghost Month will make the effects of the #2 Flying Star or Illness Star even stronger, so it is imperative that you wore your Illness Suppression Amulet or Medicine Buddha Prayer Wheel. However, the Illness Suppression Amulet has the added benefit of other consecrated power of other Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. You can read it by reading the post called – ILLNESS SUPPRESSION AMULET: A MUST HAVE ANTI – ILLNESS AND ANTI – ACCIDENT AMULET FOR 2016 AND BEYOND!

But, of course, on top of that we still need to worry about the effects of the Dreaded Hungry Ghost Month. I have written so many articles about it, and all you have to do is click on the category KUWENTO NG HUNGRY GHOST MONTH or here to read through all the articles I have written about it.

To protect yourself from the Hungry Ghost Month, it is important that you wear your Chung Kwei. Chung Kwei is a Taoist God, which is regarded as the only effective protector for the ill effects of the Hungry Ghost Month. However, the Vajrapani Ruel and Kalachakra Pendant made of gold should also work also.

If you wish to know more about Chung Kwei you can read the following posts:

For those born in the year of the Ox and Tiger, and those whose office or bed room or door faces Northeast, you should also take extra careful, because the aside from the #2 Flying Star, you are also severely affected by the Wu Wang or the Five Yellow Star. This is one of the most dangerous star one can encounter, and with the Hungry Ghost Month, things are definitely not looking so well. Thus it is important for people born under the year of the Ox and Tiger and whose bedroom or office or door faces the Northeast to wear the Five Element Pagoda pendant made in gold, Chung Kwei, plus the Vajrapani Ruel or Kalachakra Pendant made in gold also or the Surangama Mantra Amulet. Of course, to help protect oneself from the Illness Star, you should also have the Illness Suppression Amulet.

Before I end this post, you should know that the Hungry Ghost Month this year runs for 30 days, and starts on August 3, 2016. It’s peak, which is the Hungry Ghost Festival is on the 17th, so the most dangerous time is on the eve of August 17, until August 18.

This is a rare black jade pendant image of Chung Kwei. Was fortunate enough to find one in Beijing, China in a small shop. Remember in choosing a Chong Kwei or Chung Kwei or Zhung Kwei or Zhong Kwei, always get a something that’s made of a black stone or gold. Otherwise, it might not be very effective.

The Vajrapani Ruel looks simple, maybe even rustic, but this simple amulet is packed with a special talisman paper inside, with various ingredients, which includes Namtso Salt, soil, various herbs and plants, crystal, and a relic from a high lama. It’s important to put the ruel inside a amulet holder or something sturdy as to not ruin it. If the cloth had tear which exposes or spill the ingredients inside, the ruel becomes useless. The Vajrapani Ruel itself is only about 1 to 2 inches and it varies from one ruel to another.

NOTE: THIS IS THE OLD ILLNESS SUPPRESSION AMULET. THE NEW ONE IS MADE OF METAL. SHOWING THIS PHOTO SO YOU BASICALLY HAVE AN IDEA WHAT’S INSIDE. The Illness Suppression Amulet or Illness Protection Amulet is a special highly consecrated amulet made by my Guru Lama as a cure for the Illness Star a star that also causes accidents. It has the energies of the Medicine Buddha, Namgyalma Buddha, Amitayus Buddha and White Umbrella Goddess. Furthermore, the small black thing you see at the bottom of the glass amulet holder is a Dharma Pill, which is made from a second – class relic of a confirmed holy lama. It also has a small amount of ash from the last Medicine Buddha holy initiation conducted by my Guru Lama, and aside from individual special consecration, the whole amulet was further consecrated under the Tooth Relic of Shakyamuni Buddha.

This is a Kalachakra Pendant designed by Lillian Too. She has included some mandala sands inside the pendant to make it more potent. I personally love this pendant and has one that is made of white gold. The Kalachakra Symbol is a powerful protection symbol. It is actually ten syllable mantra compressed into one symbol. The mantra is HO HAM KSHAMALA VARAYA HUM PHAT. However, it is usually chanted with OM AH HUM thus making the complete mantra as OM AH HUM HO HAM KSHAMALA VARAYA HUM PHAT. It is because off this that for the WISH FULFILLING AND BUDDHA’S BLESSING MANTRA PENDANT, I decided to put the symbolic script OM AH HUM on top of Kalachakra Symbol.

Pure Land Buddhists believes that when you wear a Surangama Mantra Amulet, heavenly beings that has an affinity with you will hover over you.

If you wish to know more about the Hungry Ghost Month, please read all the other articles by clicking here.

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TO UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT THE HUNGRY GHOST MONTH, HUNGRY GHOSTS, IT’S EFFECTS, RITUALS AND PROTECTION READ THE FOLLOWING HUNGRY GHOSTS SERIES: